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<h1 class="title">Hang Up</h1>
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<p> Eva Hesse<br>
American, born Germany, 1936–1970<br>
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<h3><em>Hang Up</em>, 1966</h3>
<p> Acrylic on cloth over wood; acrylic on cord over steel tube<br>
182.9 x 213.4 x 198.1 cm (72 x 84 x 78 in.)<br>
Through prior gifts of Arthur Keating and Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Morris, 1988.130</p>
© The Estate of Eva Hesse. Hauser & Wirth Zürich London </div>
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<p>During her short career, Eva Hesse produced an extraordinarily
influential body of work that responded to the reductive formalism
of Minimalist sculpture through an exploration of the expressive
possibilities of abstraction. Trained as a painter under Josef
Albers at Yale University from 1957 to 1959, she considered the
sculpture Hang Up to be her first significant work of art. An
ironic commentary on painting, <em>Hang Up</em> was, according to
the artist, her first piece to achieve the level of “absurdity or
extreme feeling” she intended. Privileging painting’s marginal
feature—the frame—<em>Hang Up</em> playfully ignores the medium’s
inherent two-dimensionality by means of the cord that protrudes
awkwardly into the gallery space. Playing with language, the title
refers both to installing a painting and to a psychological
preoccupation.</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/19/2015 01:09 PM, J.N. wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap=""><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://hyperallergic.com/207327/finally-a-documentary-about-eva-hesses-life-and-work/">http://hyperallergic.com/207327/finally-a-documentary-about-eva-hesses-life-and-work/</a>
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Finally, a Documentary About Eva Hesse’s Life and Work
by Benjamin Sutton on May 15, 2015
Eva Hesse’s life story exudes drama. From escaping Nazi Germany at age
two aboard one of the last Kindertransport trains bound for the
Netherlands, to her emphatic break with the dominant mode of art making
of the 1960s — Minimalism, to her death from a brain tumor at 34, and to
her posthumous celebration as one of the most important artists of the
second half of the 20th century, her biography has all the requisite
elements of a rousing documentary or tear-jerking biopic.
But it’s only now, 45 years after Hesse’s death, that a feature-length
documentary has been made about the artist’s life and work. Director
Marcie Begleiter recently completed Eva Hesse, which will have its world
premiere Sunday at the Whitney Museum, where one of Hesse’s last and
most famous works is featured prominently as part of the institution’s
inaugural show in its new building, America Is Hard to See.
Hyperallergic spoke to Begleiter and the film’s producer, Karen Shapiro,
about the process of reading through Hesse’s diaries, capturing her
notoriously unwieldy rope and textile sculptures on film, and the
powerful impact she had on her contemporaries’ lives.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindertransport">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindertransport</a>
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